We really wanted to find a way to give each of these various classes new tools that they might not normally have, and giving them temporary access to cards that aren’t part of their normal kit was something that was enabled by the tri-class. What was the inspiration behind the new tri-class cards? Generally, we try to find these kind of landmarks or keystone moments that we have a lot of nostalgia for and passion for in the Warcraft universe, and we build that into a theme for our next major release. Like what if this is happening before the Karazhan you know, and the reason why Karazhan got all messed up in World of Warcraft was because of this most epic party of all time that just trashed the place? In the case of Karazhan, the most recent thing we did before this, we really liked the location inside the Warcraft universe, but obviously we took a very novel take on it. That was just a location that we thought was really cool. I mean we knew we really wanted to do something in Naxxramas when we did the first expansion. It just felt like Gadgetzan really lent itself towards this theme that we were going for, with these crime families…ĭoes the theme always come first, and then you match it to the lore? Here’s a place where it’s already away from the Horde and Alliance, we already have this neutral auction house that’s sort of this no man’s land it has this kind of evolution that’s happened since the Cataclysm, since Deathwing came up and basically destroyed Azeroth and turned it into a port city.Īnd so what happens when you have this place where it’s operating above the law and there’s not really any rules there, and now it’s a port city and starts attracting commerce well? Well, what we think would happen is the city would grow because guess what? This is a place where you can make a buck without having to make taxes to the Alliance. He said ‘well, what about Gadgetzan?’, and it just felt like a perfect fit. It actually came later on in one of our design brainstorming conversations about what was the best place to set this, and we were thinking about all the kind of locations in Azeroth, and I think it might have been Chris Metzen who threw it out. We knew we wanted to go to a sort a sort of seedy underbelly of crime dens, and bending the rules of what players normally expect. We knew we wanted to do a darker sort of take on the next expansion. What made you choose Gadgetzan, a pretty innocuous town in World of Warcraft, as the setting for the next Hearthstone expansion? We spoke to Jason Chayes, Production Director at Blizzard, who leads the development on the game, and who helped create the new expansion, about all things Hearthstone – including what to expect from Mean Streets of Gadgetzan and beyond. The new Hearthstone expansion, which is set in Warcraft’s goblin port city of Gadgetzan, is set to land in early December on all platforms. The dust has settled after Blizzcon 2016, and Hearthstone fans everywhere are looking forward to a new expansion: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan.
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